Small Business Administration today urged 7(a) participating lenders, 504 program Certified Development Companies and microlenders to provide deferment relief for borrowers with SBA- backed business loans in the primary disaster areas affected by Hurricane Katrina and contiguous parishes/counties.

The student deferment became the key tool used by the upper middle class to avoid the draft; indeed, one 1972 study showed "avoiding the draft' ranked among the three most important reasons students cited for going to college.

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